Old and appropriate war
Congress did something useful for once, and apparently rebelled in a small way against Deepstate. Both "parties" firmly rejected Obama's veto of a bill allowing suits against Saudi.

With Deepstate you never know... it could be that Obama's veto was fake and the override is the desired response. Normally you assume that the final result is what Deepstate wanted, despite appearances. But I'll take it at face value for a moment in order to hit a specific point.

The really interesting part of this bill is not the rebellion, but the reinstatement of an old form of war.

Most people understand by now that Saudi attacked us on 9/11. Most understand that Bush's response was criminally wrong. Instead of counterattacking the aggressor, he attacked two countries that had no part in the attack.

But: A military counterattack against the nation of Saudi would have been wrong in a different way. Though I've used the Pearl Harbor analogy often, it doesn't work well.

Saudi is not a nation in the modern sense. Japan is. (And was in 1941 as well.) Saudi is a feudal kingdom, a family-owned corporation with nation-like and religion-like characteristics. Similar to Euro nations before 1700. And the 9/11 attackers were not a nation's army; they were more like the bands of knights and pirates who ran the Euro wars from 900 to 1700 AD. They were sponsored by some members of the royal family but not by the nation as an entity.

Compensatory justice was a common response to those knights and pirates. They were after money and macho, not total national obliteration. The response was to take money and macho from the Duke or Baron who sponsored the knights.

Feral lawyers can perform the modern equivalent of a counter-maraud against the Dukes and Barons of Saudi.

Natural law.


Update a few days later: Needless to say, Congress couldn't stand to do something useful, and is already backing off. But before they can back off, the law exists for a brief time, and feral lawyers are rushing to get cases started while it exists. I've never said this before and will never say it again, but just this once: THANK GOD FOR GREEDY LAWYERS. Unlike politicians, they know how to get shit done.


SOROS DELENDA EST.

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